Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 21 Oct 2001 09:33:34 +0100 | From | Jonathan Morton <> | Subject | Re: The new X-Kernel ! |
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> > Boots up with X, that means. > >I've never understood why people want X, StarOffice (OpenOffice) etc to be >moved into kernel space :) IMHO it's strictly user space issue. You can >start X or gdm/xdm/kdm from a boot script and so on. No kernel modification >is needed for this.
Probably because they don't know the difference between kernel and user space. Kinda understandable when you come from a Mac or Windows background, where (in the former) there is no distinction or (in the latter) it's so blurred as to make little difference.
And if they *do* understand it, from a dispassionate point of view, it does seem to make sense to put graphics drivers in the kernel - they're implemented as "device drivers" in every other desktop OS. Except MacOS X, where's it's an application layer like glibc, but nobody understand OS X yet beyond the hardest of developers.
But they don't realise that XFree86 has an *enormous* amount of developer time behind it, which would need to be duplicated to make it work in kernel space with full backwards compatibility. Oh, and did I mention this would all be for one platform - XFree86 is designed to run on many! It would also bloat the kernel tremendously.
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